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• Citizens for the most part have both heeded and embraced guidance about the steps they needed to take to be safer and more secure -- emboldened by memories from three years ago but also better informed and better educated. —  CNN.com
• So now the seatbelted speeder is emboldened, and looses control and strikes and kills another motorist or pedestrian ... did the lack of points assesment and resultant allowance of this idiot to keep his license protect that person???
• The evangelicals -- emboldened by their victory and their newfound media attention -- are asserting themselves, and it is unclear whether the Republicans 'policy of tokenism toward its religious base can persist. —  Freezerbox Magazine
• But if the press remains "emboldened," as Scherer goes on to suggest, I wonder if this could be yet another game-changer in a campaign season that's already had so many I've lost count. —  OPINION
• The Bruins left the series emboldened, and it showed with a quick start this season that propelled them to the conference's top seed. —  post-gazette.com - News

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